Repair-tool.



No. 877,306. PATENTED JAN. 21,-1908.

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REPAIR TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.7, 1 907.

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WINFIELI) L. DINSMOOR, OF LONGBEACH, CALIFORNIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

REPAIR-TOOL.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed August '7. 1907. Serial No. 387,447.

,Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Repair-Tool, of.

= which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in tools more especially designed for the use of automobilists in making tire and other repairs while on the road.

The invention has for its purpose to provide either a vise or a clamp, as desired, one of which is employed to hold the other in operative position while in use.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the preferred embodiment of my improved tool, partly in central vertical section; Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the tool illustrating the manner in which it is applied to the running board of an automobile when using it as a vise, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view phfiwing the application of the tool to the 6 Y patch to the inner tube of the tire.

The preferred practical embodiment of my repair tool comprises an extended clamping member or plate 10 which is rigidly connected at one side to an upwardly-turned vise jaw 11. Movable to and from the jaw 11 is a similar jaw 12 forming the opposed half of the vise and it is provided with guide rods 13 and 14 slidably received in apertures in the jaw 11, and an intermediate screw 15 threaded in said jaw, having a handle 16, by which the vise is operated.

Adjacent to the corners of the clamping late 10 are projections or feet 17 depending from its under face. Also projecting from the under face of the plate 10, at its center,

is a lug 18 which is embraced at opposite sides by spaced arms 19 to which it is pivotally connected, the said arms forming a part of a U-shaped member or yoke 20 the upper and overhanging arm of which threadedly receives a screw 21 provided with an operating wheel or handle 22 at its upper end. The

lower end of the screw 21 is constructed with an enlarged head 23 which is confined within a counterbored center plate 24 detachably of an automobile wheel in pressing aconnected to a second clamping plate or 3 member 25. The clamping member or plate 25 is substantially equal in extent to the opposed fixed plate 10 and, as is apparent from the construction, may be swung on its pivotal connection and employed in clam ing an object either to the top or bottom 0 the fixed clamping member.

I have illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 two of the many uses in which the tool may be employed by automobilists in making repairs on the road. Fig. 8 shows the manner in which the movable clamping plate 25 is swung to the under side of the fixed clamping plate 10 and used to grip the running board of the vehicle therebetween, as when the device is used as a vise, the feet 17, in this disposition of the tool, serving to bite into the running board and thereby securely hold the device against movement. In Fig. 4 the vise is applied to the felly of an automobile wheel and the clamp extended at one side thereof, as when making a repair to the tire, the clamp in this connection serving not only as a work table when the upper jaw is swung downwardly, but also in pressing the patch to the inner tube until it becomes firmly adhered thereto.

Many other uses of the tool than those shown, will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, also various immaterial changes in scribed will be apparent within the scope of the claims annexed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a tool of the character described, a clamping member having a vise jaw rigidly connected therewith, a second clamping member operable to clamp an object to either the bottom or the top face of the first, and a second vise jaw movable to and from the first-named vise jaw.

2. In a tool of the character described, in combination, a clamp comprising a fixed clamping member and a movable clamping member adapted to clamp an object to either the bottom or top face of the fixed clamping clam ing member.

3. In a tool of the character described, a clamping member having a vise jaw rigidly connected therewith, a yoke connected with the clamping member and overhanging the member, and a vise carried by the fixed the construction from that shown and desame, a second clamping member, means carried by the yoke for moving the second clamping member to and from the firstnamed member, and a second vise jaw movable to and from the first-named vise jaw.

41. In a tool of the character described, a clamp comprising a fixed clamping plate having feet projecting from the under face thereof, a yoke pivotally connected. to the under face of said clamping plate, a second clamping plate carried by said yoke movable to and from the fixed clamping plate, apd a vise rigidly connected with the fixed p ate. 7

5. In a tool of the character described, a fixed clamping plate having an upwardlyprojecting vise jaw rigidly connected at one side thereof, a second vise jaw movable to and from the first, a yoke pivotally connected to the under face of said plate, a screw threaded through said yoke, and a second clamping plate carried by said screw movable to and from said fixed clamping plate.

6. In a tool of the character described, a fixed clamping plate having a vise jaw projecting upwardly therefrom at one side thereof, a second vise jaw movable to and from the first, a yoke attached to the fixed clamping plate "adapted to overhang the upper face thereof, a screw threaded through said. yoke, and a second clamping plate movable to and from the fixed clamping plate carried by said screw.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 35 7 two subscribing witnesses.

. WINFIELD L. DINSMOOR. Witnesses:

P. S. ARMSTRONG,

C. G. GHAFFIN. 

